Chemistry Letters, Vol.32, No.9, 870-871, 2003
Anisotropic alignment change of columnar liquid crystal by polarized infrared irradiation
Infrared photoinduced alignment change of liquid crystal domains was investigated and a uniform and anisotropic change of domains was observed. The texture observation and polarized microscopic IR spectra show that a change of the molecular alignment occurred and the direction of columns depends on the polarizing angle of an irradiating infrared light.